There’s now a Louboutin red for your nails

Good news first. Two years after Christian Louboutin announced his foray into the beauty industry, his first product, Rouge Louboutin, was launched on July 23 worldwide. The remaining shades in the 30-product-strong line — Nudes, Noirs and Pops — will be launched in September this year. The bad news: No word yet on when this line will reach India.

Louboutin's collaboration with filmmaker David Lynch comes full circle with this venture — Lynch has conceptualized and created a surrealist video to introduce Rouge Louboutin, a bold red that mimics the signature red soles of Louboutin shoes, is the centrepiece of his nail polish collection.

The duo first worked together in 2007 on a project called Fetish, for which the designer created an impossibly towering heel called the Ballerina Ultima; also the exact height (20.5 centimetres) of the dramatic black lid that tops Rouge Louboutin.